Antique Louis XV Style Giltwood Mirror

Antique Louis XV style gilt wood mirror, 19th century. With a shell and foliate carved pediment, leaf carved sides, leaf and shell carved base of mirror. A substantial amount of the ...

Antique Louis XV style gilt wood (gold Leaf) console table with marble top, circa 1910. With a Carrara marble top with nicely detailed front and side edges, foliate carved frieze, ca...

Louis XVI style gilt wood (gold leaf) mirror, circa 1960. Very well done pediment with a vase out of which are flowing flowers and leaves, the sides with s shaped appliques and bell...

Continental antique Louis XV style parquetry inlaid bombe marble top commode, 19th century.

Continental Louis XV style walnut settee, 19th century. Walnut retains excellent old patina. Mortise tenon and peg construction. Recently reupholstered, upholstery in very good condi...

Antique continental Louis XV style walnut and beech wood desk, late 19th century. Nice color. Hand dove tailed drawer construction. Height of center of knee hole to floor 24". Width ...

Full-length giltwood wall mirror with French decor Louis XV style, circa 1960. Carved gilt wood frame (width: 6.5 cm / 2.55 in.) made in belgium (Provenance label on the back). Moder...

Large antique giltwood mirror, Louis XVI style, French mirror circa 1900. Antique giltwood frame decorated with fluting and pearls around...

A carved giltwood mirror of very large-scale and great quality, made by Froom & Cribbs of London. The beautifully carved wooden frame decorated with flowers and foliage. The scrolled arched top centred by an open scallop cartouche with cresting eagle. Both the frame and glass are in good condition. Stamped on the back with important London makers name and address. Froom & Cribbs 1832-1849. At 136 Strand, London. Carvers and gilders, looking glass manufacturers, picture frame makers. William Froom (1791-1865) was christened in 1791 at St George the Martyr, Southwark, the son of William and Martha Froom. He first comes to notice in 1825, when he attended a meeting of more than fifty master carvers and gilders who resolved to resist the demands of journeymen for an increase in wages (The Times 30 June 1825). He followed Fentham & Co (qv) at 136 Strand, using the description, ‘Late Fentham & Co’, on his trade label for many years. By 1829 Froom had entered into a short-lived partnership with William Cribb (qv), which was dissolved in 1831 (London Gazette 3 May 1831). William Froom and his wife Elizabeth Anne had five children born between 1831 and 1840, christened at St Mary-le-Strand.William Froom was a customer of the composition ornament maker, George Jackson & Sons (qv), 1836-1842 (see Jackson account book, V&A Archive of Art and Design, AAD/2012/1/2/3). In the 1839 directory Froom was listed as a looking glassmaker and in the 1841 census as a plate glass manufacturer. He would appear to have retired from business in 1849 from his entries in the Post Office directory. In the 1851 census he was living in Oxford Square...

At two meters (or over six and a half feet) tall, this beautifully carved Louis XIV style giltwood mirror is a dramatic reminder of how luxurious French chateaus and palaces of the 1...

Late 19th Century Louis XV style giltwood mirror.

A 19th century Louis XV style triple panel scrolling giltwood mirror. in the roccoco taste with scrolls winged maiden, and acanthus in an asymetrical frame